Business View Caribbean | February 2021

52 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN FEBRUARY 2021 BVC: What advocacy role does CARDI play on behalf of members? Clarke: “Our Value Chain Services Programme is the core of the organization – to provide technology solutions for commodities identified and targeted across the region by the Ministry of Agriculture. It focuses on increasing productivity and profitability, increasing agriculture for food safety capacity, those type of things. Another programme called Partnerships & Strategic Alliances creates partnerships at different levels in the value chain, i.e. farmers, governments, various markets, international universities, other regional institutions. Offering a more cohesive way to deal with the issues. “Then there’s a Policy & Advocacy Programme, which we advocate from the level of the heads of governments, within the international arena, within the national space, within the private sector as it relates to the issues affecting agriculture. Every year at the Ministry Working with stakeholders in Grenada to improve the productivity of their flagship export commodity-Nutmeg.